There are two issues in this thread: a) endogamy and b) DNA bias. a) Endogamy is not peculiar to Ashkenazi Jews. In the past, most folks married within their own village, and marrying a cousin was not

#dna

It's the death registration of Isaac SEELIG. I've responded on Viewmate. Nicole Heymans

#translations

I agree with Eva Lawrence's view. In my own search for my maternal grandmother's ancestors, I have run into several instances of families A and B with the same family name, same father's given name an

#germany

My mother's aunt married a widower with 4 very young children, some time in the 1920s. The grandchildren were adults before they discovered grandma was not their biological grandma. Death records are

#general

When searching for adoptees' potential biological relatives, DNAGedCom is an absolute must. https://www.dnagedcom.com/ Unlike GedMatch which requires downloading raw data by contributors, this site co

#general #dna

I hadn't previously come across this meaning of "notions". In the UK these items are "haberdashery". "England and America are two great nations separated by a common language". (G.B. Shaw). Nicole Hey

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Thank you Jan for this piece of history! Which connects with my own family history. In 1940 my mother's German Jewish family was living in Antwerp, Belgium. During the phony war, Belgian authorities h

#holocaust

I uploaded a GedCom update to FTJP in July 2019 and the online data hasn't yet been updated. I understood priority was migrating the website to NextGeneration, so I hope data presently in the queue sh

#general #courland

"ów" is a genitive plural ending, often tagged on to maiden names, when it means "of the house of". Often the final syllable is cut off before adding the declination, so it's not always obvious what t

#names #poland #translation

I maintain my databases offline in Legacy, and export in GedCom format when updating my MyHeritage or JGFF trees. When exporting to GedCom for public viewing, I disactivate export of anyone marked "pr

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Such occurrences were not peculiar to Jewish citizens. My grain of salt: My father was born out of wedlock in England in 1916 to a C of E mother. My grandfather, a Belgian soldier wounded in 1914, had

#warsaw

I have combed and indexed a number of records from Posen region, Prussia and stillbirths or deaths within minutes or hours of birth were registered as such, usually without given name; although I have

#names #usa #general

Hi Mark, I discovered about 17 years ago when attempting to make sense of my mother's 1942/1943 diary, entirely in shorthand, totally unrecognizable at first although I had learned shorthand at school

#translation

Hi Erika, My maternal grandparents were German Jews, my grandfather's family were from Westphalia and Lower Saxony, my grandmother's from Posen Province, Prussia; later Breslau (Wrocław, lower Silesia

#general

Hi Trudy, I have a same-sex couple in my tree. I use Legacy, which now caters for same-sex couples: you can enter both members with the same sex and also enter them as married. (Previously it was impo

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I might add that old (roughly pre-WWII) monochrome photos were usually very fine-grained, even small almost postage stamp sized snapshots or passport photos. Scanning these at the highest resolution a

#general

Reischer r Kessler. This is not specific to Galicia. r is an abbreviation for "recta", i.e. "truly". The notation often occurs in civil birth records of children whose parents are married religiously

#galicia

From the JewishGen home page, https://www.jewishgen.org/new/ a click on search takes you to a search form. Above the form are several buttons; click on "databases", FTJP is still there. However activi

This looks like a tradeoff to reduce bank charges for all involved. Charges on transfers within the SEPA (Single European Payments Area) zone are the same as for internal transfers, e.g. nil for trans

#belarus

Dear Genners, When posting a translation request, PLEASE specify the language in the subject line. This is in everyone's interest. An informative subject line attracts attention of those who might hav